President Obama to Outline Plan for Immigration Reform

President Obama (Huffington Post)

May 10, 200– Today at 2:30 p.m. CST (1:30 p.m. MDT) in El Paso, Texas, President Obama is beginning a series of conversations on his vision for America’s broken immigration system and the impact fixing it will have on the economy.

“We are the first nation to be founded for the sake of an idea—the idea that each of us deserves the chance to shape our own destiny,” said President Obama in his State of the Union address in January. “That’s why centuries of pioneers and immigrants have risked everything to come here…The future is ours to win. But to get there, we cannot stand still.”

People who showed up to get better seating at Chamizal National Park in El Paso for the visit of President Barack Obama. ( Rudy Gutierrez/El Paso Times)

Some of the items President Obama plans to outline as part of his vision for the country’s immigration system are: